Some upcoming nations are going to be in Oceania, so I figured, why not do a quick "Oceania explained" video for future context? Also check out some of the previous Oceania videos we've done like Papua New Guinea, Marshall islands, or Palau! Which was your favorite?
The Afghanistan episode came out on October 15th, 2014. 1981 days later, the Saint Vincent and Grenadines episode came out on March 18th, 2020. Saint Vincent and Grenadines is the 148th country in alphabetical order. 1982 / 148 = 13.392 13.392 × (193 - 148) = 602.635, 603 if we round it up. March 18th 2020 + 603 days = Thursday, November 11th, 2021, which is when the Zimbabwe episode should come out.
7:22 Fun Fact, Kiribati actually renamed one of their islands to Millenium Island, because that island was the very first place to see the new Millenium.
Thanks Barbs, as a Melanesian I agree! There's not much said or known about the Melanesian peoples and our cultures. We are still a mystery but there are many of us who are researching it.
Clemen Game No. He’s pushing for the idea that we should call the Americas “America” in English. This is common with many entitled Latin Americans these days. And they leave this kind of comment on any possible video. You must be new on the internet.
impartial Greek here, I'm with the Latinos on this one. Most Latinos are more Americans than "americans" anyway. US was made to be a country of European / African immigrants, later on added Asians as well, but the real Americans nowadays are Mexican, Bolivian, Peruvian etc.
fun fact: new zealand used to be one island that was as tall as the east coast of the usa and about three times as wide as it is today. It possibly was connected to Australia. However, at some point, sea levels rose and sunk most of New Zealand and left behind what we see of New Zealand today.
Yay! I love learning about this part of the world especially because outside of Australia and New Zealand, you don’t really hear about these unique and awesome pacific island nations/territories! Thanks Geography Now and keep up the great work making these very informative videos! I love to learn from you guys!
I'm an Australian and have been binge-watching your videos about Oceania (and Indonesia and Timor-Leste). It's great learning about my neighbours and the continent in, I know so much about Europe and Middle East but not my own backyard...but our brothers and sisters across the Pacific are so interesting themselves! Keep up the great work mate
The all weird faces when explaining the possible Micronesia/ Federal States of Micronesia confusion thing were funny, being himself from the United States of America.
About melanesia, the name comes from the Greek word "μελανος" =melanόs which means "dark colour, close to black". Hence the name of a region where the people have dark skin .
Well, I can do that on a map pretty easily. Probably because I'm a Pacific island enthusiast or something like that... the real challenge for me is the Lesser Antilles nations
It's a good thing that the emus haven't invaded any more nations. Oceania also has a lost continent. It's called zelandia and is under water and at one time was above the water. It would have been half the size of Australia and be the biggest island in the world.
Barbs, have you ever considered re-recording the first countries of the series? I feel that you improved a lot on the format of the videos and I would love to see some countries with the better production plus presenters that joined after. And I say this as a Brazilian who would appreciate a longer episode because of the size of the country and how much diversity we have here :)
I loved this episode......I love how you mentioned East Timor as well......I'm mixed with Timorese and I had taken a DNA test and found that I am 29% Melanesian, which I figured would be due to my Timorese side. Love and support from Australia
@@SantomPh yea I figured after speaking to my family about it but also I had Filipino mixture too also Portuguese which made sense due to Timor history
Thank you! I am teaching a little geography class on Mondays and this coming week is Oceania. Your stuff is always great but also especially helpful while I help my kids explore our planet!
@@andyjay729 I just checked, Samoa has no case yet, some other lucky Pacifics yet are NZ's Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY I AM YOU MENTIONED NORFOLK AND PITCAIRN!!! I am a decendant of both of the islands and my heart rate physically sped up when you were listing islands as I feared you wouldnt mention them (Most videos dont) you really know your stuff, thankyou, Mais Tentulã Mais Lubbé😭❤🙏
I’m 16 now and I’ve lived 12 years in Melanesia (specifically Fiji for 8 years, Vanuatu for 1 and Papua New Guinea for 3 and a half) and the people are the best. I now moved back to Europe but I miss it every day. If you ever have the chance, please visit Fiji cause Fijians are the most kind hearted loving people in the world (also please visit so the tourism industry can stay alive after covid)
@Fiji Country Ball hey mate, alg I'm in Macedonia now, so, far away from the action 😅😅. How's stuff in Fiji, I heard the mask mandate was lifted ey? How's tourism? Genuinely a delight to get your reply, I miss fiji so much, much love bro, Moce
Finally, I wanted an episode about Oceania so bad! Anyway I always thought Australia and the Islands around (like Solomon Islands) are a continent, while Polynesia, Micronesia and most of Melanesia aren't, but we created this geographical term, Oceania, to mentally locate them.
As a Torres Strait Islander. We are genetically Melanesian, culturally similar but there are a few islands that are close to mainland Australia where the Kaurareg peoples are a mixture of mainland Aboriginals and Melanesians and state that they're an Aboriginal nation.
"Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean…" - Epeli Hau'ofa
Great video! Always one upping yourself Barbs and crew! Please don’t stop content when you done! I know that slot to ask but we all appreciate you so much!
6:00 Barbs: A country in Micronesia called Micronesia *shrugs* Imagine if there was a country in the Americas called America, that would be so weird too.
Right? I've never understood that. Like, if we're separating based on cultural differences, then I would argue that SW Asia and East Asia are more different than SW Asia and Europe, so why is the split where it is? I mean, we all know why, it's because it's based on a Euro-centric view of the world where Europe is somehow apart from Asia. Even as a kid, I never understood why we divided Europe and Asia like that. Frankly, I would even say a case could be made for Afro-Eurasia to all be one continent, just like how some call the Americas one continent. Then again, at least Africa is somewhat physically cut off from Eurasia, so that division makes some sense, but Europe and Asia are for sure one continent.
@@theblackryvius6613 The Suez Canal, technically. But if we're going off Atlas Pro's criteria that a continental boundary is where a climatic region is at its thinnest point, then the boundary is still between the Sinai Peninsula and the rest of Egypt. However, he also split Eurasia into Asia, Europe, Anarabia, Achaemenia, and Aindia based on mountain ranges, although in essence Europe, Anarabia (including the Iranian plateau), and India are more like subcontinents--divided more culturally than geographically.
A Swedish Perspective from what Big Brother said (and Big Brother is always right) Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. Eastasia has always been the ally.
Can't believe we'll reach the end of the UN states soon. I've been watching since the Benin episode and it's been so mad to see you grow to where you are now but at the same time it's literally taken forever
in sweden we say ”världsdelar” which translates to world parts basically. we have the work kontinent also but världsdelar includes oceania in a simpler way
Barby: "Some areas teach there are only 6 continents" Me: "Oh, must be ones that stick with Eurasia." Map: North & South America are one continent. Me: *o.O*
continents are divided based on petty much common knowledge. If they were divided based on tectonic plates, there would be more than 20 continents. New Zealand and Cuba would be two of them
Oh please we have an 8/7 system in my country, Europe Asia Africa Antarctica Oceania and the Americas, which can be North, South and Central or Latin and Anglo
It’s like a girlfriend and a boyfriend broke up, but they relized that they had a dog before breaking up. Well New Zealand is like that dog. Australasia gets to keep him sometimes. And then it’s polenisia
I see it as more of this: Canada&America are the older siblings, raised by Britain (With Uncle France coming in and spending time with Canada when Britain wasn't looking) and when America went through their teenage rebellion and became independent, Britain went off to go find new kids to raise (read: colonise). They adopted these two unrelated kids, Australia and NZ, who lived together reluctantly at first then grew closer as they grew up. The two sets of kids meet for the first time in the trenches of WW1 when Britain introduces them. After the war, Britain moved back to Europe and NZ&Australia got independence. During WW2, Australia, Canada, America and New Zealand only got closer. Canada and New Zealand somewhat rely on their bigger, more powerful older siblings, but are annoyed they keep getting mistaken as their older siblings when traveling overseas. Although America spends most of their time with Canada and Australia sounds most of their time with NZ because their houses are right next to each other, during family reunions America and Australia will sneak off to do crazy shenanigans together (Probably annoying Britain by butchering the Queen's English) while Canada and New Zealand chat about hockey and rugby while sipping on tea.
I’m Polynesian. The language thing - some languages are more mutually intelligible than others. Samoan and Tongan are DEFINITELY NOT mutually intelligible, they are quite different actually. Cook Is and Maori are close but Tokelauan and Tuvaluan are probably the closest. Fluent Tokelauan and Tuvaluan speakers can hold a conversation speaking their respective languages with little to no problem. But there are definitely words that are generic throughout the islands of Polynesia e.g. fetu/whetu = star, lagi/rangi = heavens, moana = ocean, fenua/whenua/fanua = land, va’a/vaka/waka = Polynesian canoe, fale/whare = house, toto = blood etc
Worth mentioning to people reading this that in Maori, WH = F. So when you see Fetu/Whetu, just know they're pronounced very similarly, it's not like Weh-too or something.
Chuukese (Mortlockese): Fuu - Star Láng - Sky Fonu - Land Waa - Boat Falang - the cooking house Manaman - supernatural power And recently I learned that the word we use “Tirow” has exactly the same meaning as “Tulou” in some Polynesian languages. We use it when we pass people. We crouch forward, pass, and say “tirow”.
I’m so glad you mentioned my dad’s people the Torres Strait islanders !!! And yes they ain’t like the native aborigines of Australia 🇦🇺 they even can understand Tok Pisin of PNG being that their own version is very similar much like the Cooky islanders w/ Maori
Actually, the eastern part of Indonesia, which is not only West Papua but also Maluku Islands and Nusa Tenggara Islands is part of Oceania, not only geographically but also ethnically and genetically. Indonesia is not only part of Southeast Asia but also plays an important role for Oceania. Love Oceania
9:40 Quick correction: Melanesian peoples, as well as Indigenous Australians ARE Black. They aren't African but they were racialized as Black during colonization similarly to African peoples. There is a history of political movements surrounding their Blackness and their experience as a Black people. The word "Melanesia" itself roughly translates to "Islands of Black People".
I love how every country is unique in its own way Australia : Has a desert Like what other pacific country has a desert New Zealand Has fjords and snow! Tonga Has/had it’s own current erupting island that is still here ( I think so at least ) Fiji Eats people ( used to eat people ) Other islands Palm trees! No but seriously they are different and great in all ways!
Fun fact: The reason why Australia is so hot and has so many deserts is because when humans first arrived, they burned down all the jungles, because that would drive out all the animals and make them easy prey. The disappearance of all the jungles made everything dry, hot and inhospitable.
Maybe. But were not quite sure if the Melanesian are also short in stature. My former history professed even once hypothesised that Negritos were descendants of Dravidians driven out from India. .
Oceania isn't actually a continent, just a geographical region containing Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and various other pacific islands, for all those in the comments stating otherwise. I am aussie btw
Umm... it seems australians are the only ones who think that way, bc all the other comments are saying it's called Oceania and they're people who live in Oceania too so... I mean ik in the us they call it Australia too but I think you're the only ones. In Europe we also call it Oceania, and if I'm not mistaken, in South America too. Idk about Asia tho
Its usually north americans and Australia that refers to the pacific as Australia, Especially aussie. Lowkey feel like they salty cuz fiji and new Zealand didnt join the new country called " Australia" at the time, so they just called the whole region Australia lol
@@nickislander4915 Australia isn't a region either, nobody refers to the pacific as australia either, just the continent (consisting of australia and australia only)
@@juminhan6793 mac- qwar-rie. Trust me, i live close to port macquarie, got friends there. and when they say it, we usually say 'port', but it is mack-quwar-ry (i don't know hot to phonetically spell it)
@@barocaalamka no. It's pronounced as I have indicated above. Governor Lachlan Macquarie was the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales so there are many things around Sydney named after him, such as Macquarie University, the suburb of Macquarie Park and Macquarie Street is where state parliament is located. Sydneysiders are very familiar with the pronunciation.
@@alh.21 Wuh-ster-sheer Please don't start with this game, Australia and UK. We all know it's impossible to predict how your place names are going to be pronounced.
If you include ethnicity as to make border of oceania, then it should start from Madagascar to Malaysia to Taiwan and every islands in archipelago between it.
I argue that this is Oceania (a continent): As south as New Zealand, as east as the Juan Fernandez Islands including the Galápagos Islands and Clipperton Island, up to south of the Aleutian Islands, past the islands in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, past Palau, and going just west of the island of Papua, also including the Ashmore and Cartier Islands but not Timor-Leste and the Cocos (Keeling) and Christmas islands.
would it be possible as a filler subject, interviewing actual geographers? people who took up geography and are practicing it and have a career in it I think it would be fascinating to learn more about them
Contrary to what most Indonesian will say, I would prefer to let Papuan (West Papuan as the world would refer to those who live in the western part of Papua Island) decide either to stay to be a part of Indonesia or become independent. Well, I mean, they are in a place where it's geographically not asian.
During family reunions: America and Australia: *getting drunk, messing with fireworks, annoying Britain by purposefully butchering his "queens English", probably getting into all sorts of crazy shenanigans* Canada and New Zealand: *Sipping tea calmly while talking about Hockey and Rugby and sharing stories of how their respective older siblings got them in trouble*
I think your comment that it was the last human inhabited area on earth is a bit misleading. Certainly that can be said for parts of Polynesia, and maybe Micronesia, but New Guinea and Australia have been inhabited far longer than the Americas.
Honestly I didn't know there was actually dark skinned people with blonde/red hair that's natural. That's kinda cool. Didn't know anything about these people. Polynesians are cool but these melanesians need some spotlight.
Some upcoming nations are going to be in Oceania, so I figured, why not do a quick "Oceania explained" video for future context? Also check out some of the previous Oceania videos we've done like Papua New Guinea, Marshall islands, or Palau! Which was your favorite?
This is a DANK video (plz reply lol)
Rectangular Spaghetti
I’m sorry you are not boneless pizza :(
Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea
Geography Now, Hey Barby, please do an update on Bougainville soon when it is officially a country
“6 years of being doing this job, and I haven’t finished it yet”
Nah...you still have 3 more years
Yup lol
Nah. More like 2 years
Edit: if it is the fully recognized countries
Hastagmjolk nah...maybe like 20 months
The Afghanistan episode came out on October 15th, 2014.
1981 days later, the Saint Vincent and Grenadines episode came out on March 18th, 2020.
Saint Vincent and Grenadines is the 148th country in alphabetical order.
1982 / 148 = 13.392
13.392 × (193 - 148) = 602.635, 603 if we round it up.
March 18th 2020 + 603 days = Thursday, November 11th, 2021, which is when the Zimbabwe episode should come out.
@@alessandromarchetti2766 if it doesn't come in this date i will report you
7:22 Fun Fact, Kiribati actually renamed one of their islands to Millenium Island, because that island was the very first place to see the new Millenium.
Thanks Barbs, as a Melanesian I agree! There's not much said or known about the Melanesian peoples and our cultures. We are still a mystery but there are many of us who are researching it.
proud to be Melanesian
Same, my fellow melanesian.
@@narasiliar529 but you don't live in there right ?
It's because we consider our customs and cultures Sacred, unlike poly's
Hi, IYO why do you think its like that? F
As a Chamorro (Guam 🇬🇺 native), thank you for this episode and covering all of our islands! 🙌🏽👏🏽
Biba i Islå-ta!
Chamorros, pilipinos, indonesians is only one before the colonisation.. They use to navigate from one island to another island..
Åom oui!
6:00 "A country inside of Micronesia, called Micronesia" Paul shrugged from his country inside of America, called America. xD
Exactly!
Manos It’s not called that in English though. There is no continent called “America” in English; it’s just the country.
Clemen Game No. He’s pushing for the idea that we should call the Americas “America” in English. This is common with many entitled Latin Americans these days. And they leave this kind of comment on any possible video. You must be new on the internet.
Clemen Game I’m not kidding. Have you not seen this kind of thing before?
impartial Greek here, I'm with the Latinos on this one. Most Latinos are more Americans than "americans" anyway. US was made to be a country of European / African immigrants, later on added Asians as well, but the real Americans nowadays are Mexican, Bolivian, Peruvian etc.
Can’t believe he’s almost at the end
Were just waiting for the U's at this point
I’ve been watching every now and then ever since around he did my country (Australia) and now he’s finally near the end
Michael Polloway
Still , they have 23 S countries left
But the info is now outdated so he gets to do it again
Cant wait for Sudan🇸🇩🇸🇩
Oceania, the most underrated continent!
Anand Singh Laishram Already watched it mate!
Yeah because we have afl
*underwatered continent.
It isn't a continent, it's a regional name.
@@jalilb.b.3858 In my opinion, antarctica is.
fun fact: new zealand used to be one island that was as tall as the east coast of the usa and about three times as wide as it is today. It possibly was connected to Australia. However, at some point, sea levels rose and sunk most of New Zealand and left behind what we see of New Zealand today.
yeah, becoming Old Zealand
Becuse America cheated Canada and vice versa
Yeah nah Maui fished up the islands with his magical hook
Zealandia
Where I’m from tahiti it was a legend that the sunken lands of maori New Zealand
Oceania: “Smallest continent in population”
*sad Antarctica noises*
@Zayan Tahir *population*
penguin noise
@Zayan Tahir oof
@Zayan Tahir
uhmm r u blind? should i call a doctor? are you oK??
Zayan Tahir antarctica is actually small for a continent
Yay! I love learning about this part of the world especially because outside of Australia and New Zealand, you don’t really hear about these unique and awesome pacific island nations/territories! Thanks Geography Now and keep up the great work making these very informative videos! I love to learn from you guys!
I'm an Australian and have been binge-watching your videos about Oceania (and Indonesia and Timor-Leste). It's great learning about my neighbours and the continent in, I know so much about Europe and Middle East but not my own backyard...but our brothers and sisters across the Pacific are so interesting themselves! Keep up the great work mate
Oceania is one of the most unknown regions in the world. I love it here
Bula from Fiji 🇫🇯❤
The all weird faces when explaining the possible Micronesia/ Federal States of Micronesia confusion thing were funny, being himself from the United States of America.
About melanesia, the name comes from the Greek word "μελανος" =melanόs which means "dark colour, close to black". Hence the name of a region where the people have dark skin .
Oceana's history is so interesting. It's like Caribbean on steroids and way more secluded from the rest of the word
👏👏👏👏
Here’s a challenge: Try locating the tiny Oceanic nations of the Pacific
Tuvalu
Challange
Ok
Well, I can do that on a map pretty easily. Probably because I'm a Pacific island enthusiast or something like that... the real challenge for me is the Lesser Antilles nations
@@BigEvan101 nice cat picture
the only darker-shaded skin people on Earth with natural blond hair.... wow, the world will never stop to amaze me.
It's a good thing that the emus haven't invaded any more nations.
Oceania also has a lost continent.
It's called zelandia and is under water and at one time was above the water.
It would have been half the size of Australia and be the biggest island in the world.
We found Old Zealand
@Big Smoke because greenland exists
@@alabama100 old Zealand is ac a place in the Netherlands
@Big Smoke because technically it is a continent, so a lot of people don't count it as an island.
@@brianisme6498 oh yeah I forgot that flat maps distort things
Barbs, have you ever considered re-recording the first countries of the series? I feel that you improved a lot on the format of the videos and I would love to see some countries with the better production plus presenters that joined after. And I say this as a Brazilian who would appreciate a longer episode because of the size of the country and how much diversity we have here :)
Oh Afganistan episode will be so different nowadays
I loved this episode......I love how you mentioned East Timor as well......I'm mixed with Timorese and I had taken a DNA test and found that I am 29% Melanesian, which I figured would be due to my Timorese side.
Love and support from Australia
@@SantomPh yea I figured after speaking to my family about it but also I had Filipino mixture too also Portuguese which made sense due to Timor history
I'm also mixed with Timorese because of my parent but I haven't take DNA test.
Love and support from Indonesia
@@solangeboavida226 btw you surname "boavida" means "good life" in portuguese
@@maryocecilyo3372 I already knew that but thanks anyways.......
what DNA test did you take?
Thank you! I am teaching a little geography class on Mondays and this coming week is Oceania. Your stuff is always great but also especially helpful while I help my kids explore our planet!
Barbs: soon we wil reach *the end*
Coronavirus: youre not wrong there man.
He probably won't be able to actually go to Samoa for a while like he did "the Saints".
@@andyjay729 but hey at least hannah's going to st. lucia soon!
Climate change: Heh, we'll see about that.
@@andyjay729 I just checked, Samoa has no case yet, some other lucky Pacifics yet are NZ's Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
@@adrianatgaming8640 Well, I wouldn't be too certain on that either. Are there any cases there or nearby in the Caribbean?
Damn Barby, you actually mentioned the whole bit about Rotuma being Polynesian. Thoroughly impressed. Thanks!
This exciting actually
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY I AM YOU MENTIONED NORFOLK AND PITCAIRN!!! I am a decendant of both of the islands and my heart rate physically sped up when you were listing islands as I feared you wouldnt mention them (Most videos dont) you really know your stuff, thankyou, Mais Tentulã Mais Lubbé😭❤🙏
I think you explained great the Oceania Region and i am excited for the Tuvalu episode 💪🇹🇻
I’m 16 now and I’ve lived 12 years in Melanesia (specifically Fiji for 8 years, Vanuatu for 1 and Papua New Guinea for 3 and a half) and the people are the best. I now moved back to Europe but I miss it every day. If you ever have the chance, please visit Fiji cause Fijians are the most kind hearted loving people in the world (also please visit so the tourism industry can stay alive after covid)
@Fiji Country Ball hey mate, alg I'm in Macedonia now, so, far away from the action 😅😅. How's stuff in Fiji, I heard the mask mandate was lifted ey? How's tourism? Genuinely a delight to get your reply, I miss fiji so much, much love bro, Moce
I gotta compare my fro to a Fiji 🇫🇯 fro someday
Same man, my family is from Maluku and I live in Europe. The vibes are much better there
"We're going to reach the end of UN members."
Me, a Taiwanese: *HOORAY!!!*
why do you have a japanese name lol
@@adrianatgaming8640 I just don't wanna use my real name, so I made up a Japanese one since I used to travel to Japan quite often.
Yo, I'm also a Taiwanese! I've been a geography now fan for such a long time, can't wait if one day Barbs make a video on Taiwan!
Polynesians came from Taiwan.
Isn't Taiwan not part of the UN?
Or am I mixing stuff up? (sorryyy)
Love the episode so far, so sad that we are running out of countries, could you do a episode about all the Canadian cities, keep up the great work
Wow, this region of the world is amazingly diverse and fascinating! Definitely going to seek out documentaries about these marvellous people now!
I actually laughed at the "love square"
Same here
I laugh in Spanish
Can't wait for the Tuvalu and Vanuatu episodes!!!
It's 12:41 am in Norway, and I'm watching Geography Now - gotta love quarantine life!
Yeah, same in The Netherlands. My excuse is cleaning up my laptop to see if it can go a wee bit faster.
Well its 01:44 were I live
I was about to sleep until geography now uploaded
Same here in France, good luck and stay safe European brothers and sisters ❤️
10:46 am in east Australia
In Germany too
Finally, I wanted an episode about Oceania so bad!
Anyway I always thought Australia and the Islands around (like Solomon Islands) are a continent, while Polynesia, Micronesia and most of Melanesia aren't, but we created this geographical term, Oceania, to mentally locate them.
I love Seterra! It’s super useful for studying. It’s definitely helped me pass some social studies exams.
I can't stress enough how amazing your videos are, and what an awesome service you provide to the curious folk of the world. Chapeau!
*Confused about a place called Micronesia within Micronesia; lives in a place called America within America”
I think people just say Micronesia instead of FSM-Federate States of Micronesia.
As a Torres Strait Islander. We are genetically Melanesian, culturally similar but there are a few islands that are close to mainland Australia where the Kaurareg peoples are a mixture of mainland Aboriginals and Melanesians and state that they're an Aboriginal nation.
"Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean…" - Epeli Hau'ofa
Every once in a while, review my geography. That was an amazing. Thank you
Great video! Always one upping yourself Barbs and crew! Please don’t stop content when you done! I know that slot to ask but we all appreciate you so much!
6:00 Barbs: A country in Micronesia called Micronesia *shrugs*
Imagine if there was a country in the Americas called America, that would be so weird too.
He means FSM = Federate States of Micronesia
We just say Micronesia and they'll just understand that it's FSM.
I love that the "Six continents" map has North and South America as one continent, but still separates Europe and Asia.
Even Asia and Africa are more connected than North America and South America.
Right? I've never understood that. Like, if we're separating based on cultural differences, then I would argue that SW Asia and East Asia are more different than SW Asia and Europe, so why is the split where it is? I mean, we all know why, it's because it's based on a Euro-centric view of the world where Europe is somehow apart from Asia. Even as a kid, I never understood why we divided Europe and Asia like that. Frankly, I would even say a case could be made for Afro-Eurasia to all be one continent, just like how some call the Americas one continent. Then again, at least Africa is somewhat physically cut off from Eurasia, so that division makes some sense, but Europe and Asia are for sure one continent.
@@samweldon8104 where is Africa physically cut off from Asia? I thought the Sinai Peninsula was in Asia
@@theblackryvius6613 The Suez Canal, technically. But if we're going off Atlas Pro's criteria that a continental boundary is where a climatic region is at its thinnest point, then the boundary is still between the Sinai Peninsula and the rest of Egypt.
However, he also split Eurasia into Asia, Europe, Anarabia, Achaemenia, and Aindia based on mountain ranges, although in essence Europe, Anarabia (including the Iranian plateau), and India are more like subcontinents--divided more culturally than geographically.
As an European we all learned in school that there are 7 continents in the world where America is split into North America and South America.
I thought you guys were going to talk about Oceania in 1984.
George Doty-Williams I guess because much of their territory was made up of islands and coastal areas.
Goldstein double plus un-good!
Who would he say they’re at war with
A Swedish Perspective from what Big Brother said (and Big Brother is always right) Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia. Eastasia has always been the ally.
@@georgelloydgonzalez alotta ocean between their territor(y/ies)
very well done Paul! I am honored that you showed the world my postcard of the "Tree that Owns Itself!" in Athens, GA!
Thanks! I learned a lot in this video. I'll be coming back to it and the other videos on this channel.
Can't believe we'll reach the end of the UN states soon. I've been watching since the Benin episode and it's been so mad to see you grow to where you are now but at the same time it's literally taken forever
in sweden we say ”världsdelar” which translates to world parts basically. we have the work kontinent also but världsdelar includes oceania in a simpler way
Omggg you pronounced my country correctly!!! You said Niue the way its supposed to be pronounced! Thank you so much :)
Barby: "Some areas teach there are only 6 continents"
Me: "Oh, must be ones that stick with Eurasia."
Map: North & South America are one continent.
Me: *o.O*
That continent it's called 'America' in Spanish.
We consider around here 6 continents : America / Europe / Asia / Africa / Oceania / Antarctica.
continents are divided based on petty much common knowledge. If they were divided based on tectonic plates, there would be more than 20 continents. New Zealand and Cuba would be two of them
Oh please we have an 8/7 system in my country, Europe Asia Africa Antarctica Oceania and the Americas, which can be North, South and Central or Latin and Anglo
Russia at least teaches Eurasia and Two Americas, as far as I know. The one America continent is popular with spanish/portuguese speaking countries
Micro(small)- nesia(islands)
Mela (black) - nesia (islands)
Poly(many) - nesia ( islands)
Finally! I love Oceania, it's my favorite continent.
I’ve been watching since around Japan and I never thought of “The End”
It’s like a girlfriend and a boyfriend broke up, but they relized that they had a dog before breaking up. Well New Zealand is like that dog. Australasia gets to keep him sometimes. And then it’s polenisia
That dog has the best land though! Dad (Australia) got the desert while mom got all the tiny islands.
Finish303 Their struggling, dogs are peaceful
@@Finish303 Dad got the main house. Mum got all the investment properties.
Zealandia is its own submerged continent. Only New Zealand and New Caledonia remain above water
I see it as more of this: Canada&America are the older siblings, raised by Britain (With Uncle France coming in and spending time with Canada when Britain wasn't looking) and when America went through their teenage rebellion and became independent, Britain went off to go find new kids to raise (read: colonise). They adopted these two unrelated kids, Australia and NZ, who lived together reluctantly at first then grew closer as they grew up.
The two sets of kids meet for the first time in the trenches of WW1 when Britain introduces them. After the war, Britain moved back to Europe and NZ&Australia got independence. During WW2, Australia, Canada, America and New Zealand only got closer.
Canada and New Zealand somewhat rely on their bigger, more powerful older siblings, but are annoyed they keep getting mistaken as their older siblings when traveling overseas.
Although America spends most of their time with Canada and Australia sounds most of their time with NZ because their houses are right next to each other, during family reunions America and Australia will sneak off to do crazy shenanigans together (Probably annoying Britain by butchering the Queen's English) while Canada and New Zealand chat about hockey and rugby while sipping on tea.
Literally my favorite channel everrrrr ❤❤❤
Very insightful and very much appreciated!
I’m Polynesian. The language thing - some languages are more mutually intelligible than others. Samoan and Tongan are DEFINITELY NOT mutually intelligible, they are quite different actually. Cook Is and Maori are close but Tokelauan and Tuvaluan are probably the closest. Fluent Tokelauan and Tuvaluan speakers can hold a conversation speaking their respective languages with little to no problem. But there are definitely words that are generic throughout the islands of Polynesia e.g. fetu/whetu = star, lagi/rangi = heavens, moana = ocean, fenua/whenua/fanua = land, va’a/vaka/waka = Polynesian canoe, fale/whare = house, toto = blood etc
Aj Edwards i am polynesian too
I am half samoan and tongan and half european
Worth mentioning to people reading this that in Maori, WH = F.
So when you see Fetu/Whetu, just know they're pronounced very similarly, it's not like Weh-too or something.
Chuukese (Mortlockese):
Fuu - Star
Láng - Sky
Fonu - Land
Waa - Boat
Falang - the cooking house
Manaman - supernatural power
And recently I learned that the word we use “Tirow” has exactly the same meaning as “Tulou” in some Polynesian languages. We use it when we pass people. We crouch forward, pass, and say “tirow”.
I am Brazilian, I am studying this for my exams and there is almost no content in Portuguese so thank you very much for having it in English :)
Geography now: Oceania has the least population of all continents
Antarctica: Am I a joke to you?
Thanks for calling it Oceania idk why I feel like it's weird calling it Australasia it just seems like the whole continent is Australia and that's it
I’m so glad you mentioned my dad’s people the Torres Strait islanders !!! And yes they ain’t like the native aborigines of Australia 🇦🇺 they even can understand Tok Pisin of PNG being that their own version is very similar much like the Cooky islanders w/ Maori
SantomPh I’m talking about the Creole not the local toughs
Barbs: soon we will reach *the end*
Coronavirus: Yep
Coronavirus: **Cries in 97% survival rate**
Lol
@@eavn9684 cries on distrupted economy.
You mean "Yap"?
I should get punched
Actually, the eastern part of Indonesia, which is not only West Papua but also Maluku Islands and Nusa Tenggara Islands is part of Oceania, not only geographically but also ethnically and genetically. Indonesia is not only part of Southeast Asia but also plays an important role for Oceania. Love Oceania
True as
9:40 Quick correction: Melanesian peoples, as well as Indigenous Australians ARE Black. They aren't African but they were racialized as Black during colonization similarly to African peoples. There is a history of political movements surrounding their Blackness and their experience as a Black people. The word "Melanesia" itself roughly translates to "Islands of Black People".
Sending love to my fellow French people who live halfway across the globe 🇳🇨🇵🇫🇼🇫
I love how every country is unique in its own way
Australia : Has a desert
Like what other pacific country has a desert
New Zealand
Has fjords and snow!
Tonga
Has/had it’s own current erupting island that is still here ( I think so at least )
Fiji
Eats people ( used to eat people )
Other islands
Palm trees!
No but seriously they are different and great in all ways!
Leeber Gruber Oh I didn’t know that, thats cool!
@Leeber Gruber Yeah because parts of Antarctica are technically considered as a desert. Many people think deserts have to be hot and have sand.
Fun fact: The reason why Australia is so hot and has so many deserts is because when humans first arrived, they burned down all the jungles, because that would drive out all the animals and make them easy prey. The disappearance of all the jungles made everything dry, hot and inhospitable.
Pohnpei has Nan Madol
Yap has the stone money
Yap, yap outer islands, and Chuuk outer islands still know how to navigate the ocean using the stars.
As a samoan the closest languages in my view is tuvalu and tokelau, i can understand around 80 percent if tokelauan
@Jeff Iefata most definitely!
And Nukuoro and Kapingamarangi
There are native Filipinos called "Negritos" that strongly resemble Melanesian people and speak Tagalog.. kind of a historic vestige of humanity
Maybe. But were not quite sure if the Melanesian are also short in stature. My former history professed even once hypothesised that Negritos were descendants of Dravidians driven out from India. .
In Indonesia too there are Melanesians. In the Eastern part. They could speak Indonesian and some other languages in their surroundings
Hmmm🤔very interesting.
@@fariqazka1892 are you speaking West Papua?
@@rossittanotere6258 not only West Papua, but also Moluccu(Maluku), Timorese, they're Melanesian by genetic.
i love oceania. you only forgot to include the most western part of melanesia (east indonesia - flores, sumba, timor and the maluku islands)
Eagerly waiting for the Vanuatu 🇻🇺 episode
Oceania isn't actually a continent, just a geographical region containing Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and various other pacific islands, for all those in the comments stating otherwise.
I am aussie btw
Umm... it seems australians are the only ones who think that way, bc all the other comments are saying it's called Oceania and they're people who live in Oceania too so...
I mean ik in the us they call it Australia too but I think you're the only ones. In Europe we also call it Oceania, and if I'm not mistaken, in South America too. Idk about Asia tho
Its usually north americans and Australia that refers to the pacific as Australia, Especially aussie. Lowkey feel like they salty cuz fiji and new Zealand didnt join the new country called " Australia" at the time, so they just called the whole region Australia lol
@@nickislander4915 Australia isn't a region either, nobody refers to the pacific as australia either, just the continent (consisting of australia and australia only)
"Toss a coin to your Witcher" has a very different meaning on Yap.
Lol underratted comment
omg the way you said macquarie hah, if only you had a macquarie dictionary to know how to say it
“MacCOWrie”
Mac-KWUH- ah- ree is how I say it.
@@juminhan6793 mac- qwar-rie. Trust me, i live close to port macquarie, got friends there. and when they say it, we usually say 'port', but it is mack-quwar-ry (i don't know hot to phonetically spell it)
@@peepeetrain8755 you guys should learn the International Phonetic Alphabet, i say it as /məkwaɹiː/ or /məkwaɪɹiː/
Jumin Han
I think that it’s Mac-Kwah-ree
Barbs: Soon we will reach the end
Thanos: Oh goody
Seterra is really cool, full recommend from me :)
When pronouncing "Macquarie", emphasise the "quar" part, not the "Mac" part.
Say it with me now folks, [Ma-kwoh-ree]
So it's basically like McQuarry?
I also had this thought of pronouncing it as "mercury".
IDK if they sound the same.
@@barocaalamka no. It's pronounced as I have indicated above. Governor Lachlan Macquarie was the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales so there are many things around Sydney named after him, such as Macquarie University, the suburb of Macquarie Park and Macquarie Street is where state parliament is located. Sydneysiders are very familiar with the pronunciation.
@@markleon411 appreciated.
DID YOU JUST SAY MACARY ISLAND?🤦♂️
Mac-kwa-ry
Say Worcestershire
♂️ can someone explain me why this is used so much lately like completely out of context? (actual serious question)
@@alh.21 Wuh-ster-sheer
Please don't start with this game, Australia and UK. We all know it's impossible to predict how your place names are going to be pronounced.
Mah-quarry
And May-ori, even though he made the same mistake and corrected it in the NZ vid
Melenesia was most interesting. Im very curious about Fiji and New Caledonia.
If you include ethnicity as to make border of oceania, then it should start from Madagascar to Malaysia to Taiwan and every islands in archipelago between it.
The Austronesian Fam😍
I argue that this is Oceania (a continent):
As south as New Zealand, as east as the Juan Fernandez Islands including the Galápagos Islands and Clipperton Island, up to south of the Aleutian Islands, past the islands in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, past Palau, and going just west of the island of Papua, also including the Ashmore and Cartier Islands but not Timor-Leste and the Cocos (Keeling) and Christmas islands.
i first heard the word Oceania in a novel of George Orwell called 1984 :-)
When you eventually run out of countries you should re-updated videos of the older videos and do version 2.0 for the most recent countries.
A third of indonesia /eastern are Oceania.
Not only Papua.
Maluku and Nusa Tenggara is also Oceania. Not only Geographic but also Genetic.
Only papuan,Maluku and Nusa Tenggara you are asian
Perfect timing, I just wanted to leave ma phone and go sleep...
I'm proud to be Melanesian. All the way from Papua New Guinea. 🇵🇬
8:16 my economics professor told me about this stone currency.
Damn last time I was this early was with the Azerbaijan episode
Barb, you still have a lot of countries left it will take 2 Years at least. Then you can start doing partially recognized countries.
In Australia, we usually pronounce Oceania as 'Oh-she-ana', and Macquarie as 'Mac-kwo-ri'.
it's pronounced as O-SE-UH-NEE-UH
@@tridayaantapanisd7012 Not in the Great Australian dialect. Plus, Ocean is pronounced with an 'Sh' rather than 's' sound so it makes sense.
I dunno, I've always pronounced it 'Oh-shu-nee-ah'
oh-shee-ehn-ah
Oh-uh-ah
Pitcairn Island is pretty much the only reason why the “Sun never sets” on the UK these days.
But this territory is not part of the UK itself.
@@Thunderworks yes and no.
Me an Oceanian: the expert
Same😀👍
I’m Australian.
What is your country?? :D
india : I am so diverse
Micronesia: hold up now! let's not get ahead of ourselves
south asian people look the same. let's be real
would it be possible as a filler subject, interviewing actual geographers? people who took up geography and are practicing it and have a career in it
I think it would be fascinating to learn more about them
Contrary to what most Indonesian will say, I would prefer to let Papuan (West Papuan as the world would refer to those who live in the western part of Papua Island) decide either to stay to be a part of Indonesia or become independent. Well, I mean, they are in a place where it's geographically not asian.
"The more stone you have, the more powerful you are."
Other country: *tries to colonize an island in oceania*
Australia and New Zealand: don’t you ever mess with me or my son every again
UK: Quiet, you two!
Australia/New Zealand: Sorry mother :(
@@tomcruz8615 *Canada watching anxiously from afar*
During family reunions:
America and Australia: *getting drunk, messing with fireworks, annoying Britain by purposefully butchering his "queens English", probably getting into all sorts of crazy shenanigans*
Canada and New Zealand: *Sipping tea calmly while talking about Hockey and Rugby and sharing stories of how their respective older siblings got them in trouble*
@@thefrenchselkie1401 Ireland and Britain: **also drunk, and fighting over nonsense**
Raid Shadow legends now has geography.
Barb's: new sponsor.
I think your comment that it was the last human inhabited area on earth is a bit misleading. Certainly that can be said for parts of Polynesia, and maybe Micronesia, but New Guinea and Australia have been inhabited far longer than the Americas.
I HAVE BEEN ASKING THIS FOR YEARS PLEASE DO SOUTHERN EAST ASIA PLEASE
I do want to make a comment about the Melanesians. Us Melanesians do identify as black but yes not of African descent. Great video!
Black as in "COLOR" black..yes that's right, we do.
Honestly I didn't know there was actually dark skinned people with blonde/red hair that's natural. That's kinda cool. Didn't know anything about these people. Polynesians are cool but these melanesians need some spotlight.